FALL HARVEST SOUP
On Wednesday the North Carolina Pork Council held The Tarheel Pork Challenge, a cooking contest which pork had to be used as the main ingredient. Wanting to use the leftovers from the apple competition and knowing apple sauce is sometimes served with pork, I decided to try to pair the two in a creamy soup. Below is what came out to be the a third place winner giving me my second ribbon at the fair (having to catch a ship for my day job forced an end to any further attempts). If you try it out, let me know what you think.
3rd Place N.C. State Fair - 2010
- Preparing Time: 30 minutes
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Served Person: 1
contains white meat
tree nut free
nut free
contains gluten
contains red meat
shellfish free
contains dairy
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 6 sprigs thyme
- 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic salt
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 1 teaspoon curry powder
- 1 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon seasoned salt
- 32 ounces chicken broth
- 2 1/4 pounds boneless pork butt chopped into 1 inch cubes
- 3 granny smith apples diced into 1/2 inch cubes, reserve 1 apple for garnish
- 2 bell peppers 1 red, 1 green, chopped
- 1/2 white onion chopped
- 1/2 teaspoon fresh rosemary
- 5 cloves garlic roughly chopped
- Carbohydrate 116.469911998399 g
- Cholesterol 1486.17428569311 mg
- Fat 321.983096029382 g
- Fiber 20.7849527098067 g
- Protein 355.944061847287 g
- Saturated Fat 120.028746859777 g
- Serving Size 1 1 Recipe (2928g)
- Sodium 4796.42541646233 mg
- Sugar 95.6849592885927 g
- Trans Fat 28.3806957577463 g
- Calories 4827 calories
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Add first 10 ingredients to a Dutch oven or oven safe pot. Place thyme sprigs on top of ingredients and place Dutch oven with top on into your preheated oven. Cook for 1 hour and 15 minutes, then remove top and cook for an additional 30 minutes. Remove the pot from the oven and add the chicken stock, heavy cream, flour and butter. Simmer on the stove on medium heat for 15 minutes. Add 1 Granny Smith apple diced to garnish the soup.
